The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-08-18
BISDYARCIk'S BIG SCHEME.
A Remarkable Project Which the Gernan
Chancellor is Said to Have in yiew--
Germany Wants Holland.
Especial TO the New York Hora

n hehiarRaDle IrOJect NhtCh the Gerna
Chancellor is Said to Have in View.
Germany Wants Holland.
Especial TO the New York HcraldJ
FRANKFoRT, August 9.-By yer,
lucky coincidence L have Just had !,
highly interesting conversation with ,
foreign dlplomatist whose high position
enables him to have as clear an insight
into the views and ulterior aims of Prince
Bismarck as perhaps any man living can
have. The diplomatist in question was
passing through Frankfort. on his way
to fashionable German Watering place,
and the fortune of travel placed us in the
snmc railway carriage.
L called the diplomatist's attention to
the report published by the Brussels
Gazette to tho effect that tho German
stall were completing measure by
which in twenty-four hours some 400, 900
German troops could be thrown into
Holland. The diplomatist said:
That report is SO near to the truth
man designs upon Holland, are, in my
opinion, the key note of Prince Bis
marck's future projects. Prince Bis
marck, If he cloaks his acts, seldom con-
ceals his opinions, and L have serious
reasons that Justify my conviction that
before long Prince Bismarck will, by an
adroit move, use Holland as the means,
strange as it may seem ut first sight, Of
cementlnS friendship with France and
OF acquiring colonial empire for Ger
many"
remarked: "I don't quite understand
YOU How could this be done?"
Gin this way. Suppose some day
Germany were to say to France, You
may have Alsace, Lorraine back again
provided you will let Germany have
carte blanche elsewhere and agree to
Germany absorbing Holland and all tho
Holland colonies. A proposition to re-
turn the lost provinces would be received
in France with leaps and bounds of Joy.
AT heart the French and Germans do
not hate each other nearly as bitterly as
the French and English do.
81 firmly believe that Prince Bismarck
really contomplates such move. The
Chancellor never follows well-beaten
lines Of diplomatic routine. His genius
is rs indefnable as that of poet, q
founder OF religion, OF of an artist. His
diplomatic thunderbolts strike at one
moment in Schleswig- -Holstein, then in
Austria and again in France. He is not
the man to have made such eXtraordina-
ry sacrifices to lay the foundation of
German colonization unless he felt sure
OF reapiDg rich harvest"
"Ihe Chancellor knows that every
German who emigrates to America is
forever lost to Germany. The moment
Germany has colonies of her own this
vast drain upon the Fatherland can not
only be checked, but Transformed into a
priceless source of strength. The vast
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Germany wants. They could be at once
made profitable without spending sin.
gle thaler. Holland has sunk millions
of gulden and thousands of men in Java
and Sumatra. With Germa organiza-
ton and energy the Dutch Indies would
form sort OF wedge or strategic vantage
ground, dividing England's two great
colonial bulwarks-Australia and India
"Princc Bismarck feels that France
and Germany are natural allies, and that
the real enemy of Germany, Franco and
Russia is Eng land. 1t is on this basis
that the future Of Europe and Asia is to
be Scttled-thc Continent for the Cont
nentals; Germany to ccment lasting
fnendship with Franco by giving her
Uack Alsacc-LOraine and thereby realize
her magnificent dream of colonial en-
plre; and Russia, under tho ngis of
Germany and France, to secure the road,
not only to COnstantinoplc, but to a
much coveted port on the Indian Ocean,
between Persia and British India.
f'lt is today not France, but England,
that is the Chancellor's bette noirc
Everywhere he turns it is England that
opposes his interests. In the Balkan
Peninsula it is England that is straining
every nerve to create small Independent
nationalitics into barriers against Russian
and Austrian conquest. And as to the
domination that Bismarck is trying to
bring about in Egypt, England is the
dog In the manger that prevents Bis
marcks policy OF placing Egypt under
French or continental control. In Cen
trail Asia it is England that prevents
Russia from developing southward-a
policy which was always felt by Bismarck
to be a necessity, in order to enable
Germany to hold her own in Central
Europe. Everywhere it is England that
stands i'll the Chancellor's way"
And here the diplomatist lighted a
fresh cigar, and added, with significant
smile:
"In spite of these plain facts England,
in the present naval manOuvres, seems
to have utterly ignored the possibility
of defence against a German or an allied
Ere nch, German and Russian fleet at
tacking her from tho North Sea. The
British naval authorities seem to have
only provided for the case of French
invaders coming from Chcrbourg or
Boulognc!"